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City of San Francisco Mayors Disability Council please stand by. If everyone will take their seats, well begin shortly. Thank you. Good afternoon, and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday november 21, 2014, in room 400 of San Franciscos city hall. Today we are continuing our conversation about employment. Today we are focusing on veterans. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs or other assisted mobility devices. Wheelchair access is available at the van ness via ramps and provided a wheelchair lift. Assisting listening devices are available and our meetings are o...

There were also four curb ramp request and 3 request for accommodations. The request for accommodations involved blue zone parking request outside of homes and we also received 7 complaints which is in addition to two complaints we received from the previous month in may. We believe the increase is due to the large number of Construction Projects that are happening simultaneously in the city. The majority of these complaints that we received mostly involved disruption in the public rightofway due to the construction vehicles blocking access to crosswalks or on street disabled parking. In these...

Totally changing the world, and impact just expect to go backwards when the wheel has been invented. But we have to make sure that things are equal when they move forward. Thank you, with that well be going into a 10 minute starting here shortly. Please take your seats. Thank you. All right. Next on our agenda we have item no. 7. Information item. Draft Building Blocks for accessible bicycle facilities. San francisco municipal transportationation, sf mta will present and draft set of guidelines for preserving and improving accessibility in protected bike way projects presentation by annette wi...

Often crossed the threshold between the two communities and veterans got lost. Soldiers returning from the recent conflicts, many of them with visible disabilities remind us that the connection is there and veterans with disabilities are still members of the Disability Community and part of the struggle for equal rights and community integration. On a personal note im very happy that one of our councilmembers was able to organize the event for today because this is a special time to be able to connect the two communities. Moving now to information item no. 3 before we get to the presentations,...

Mayors Disability Council this friday november 21, 2014, in room 400 of San Franciscos city hall. Today we are continuing our conversation about employment. Today we are focusing on veterans. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs or other assisted mobility devices. Wheelchair access is available at the van ness via ramps and provided a wheelchair lift. Assisting listening devices are available and our meetings are open captioned and sign language interpreted and our agenda is available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for assistance. To respect everyones ability to f...